Leaves from a Bookshelf

By clicking on the spines of the volumes in this virtual bookshelf, we are haphazardly presented with a wonderful selection of leaves from old books: title-pages in many cases, or folios with noteworthy plates or illustrations.

It’s exactly the sort of site that makes us forget what we were searching for in the first place… I’ve picked out just a few of the pages there that caught my eye.

The information on the site seems to be exclusively in Dutch, but the images made a visit well worthwhile for this non-Netherlandish speaker.

I’ve trimmed these images slightly. Click on each one to open a larger, pop-up version of the same.